The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.